VLOOKUP using INDIRECT

BlackieHamel

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I have a formula that looks for a value in column A of a subsidiary worksheet and returns the value that is to its right, in column B:
Code:
=VLOOKUP(MID(A1,4,3),ONA!A:B,2,FALSE)

This works fine.

I would like to have the worksheet name, ONA in that example, be a value found in a named cell, targetcell. Here's what I have so far. With targetcell equaling ONA, I wrote this formula:

Code:
=VLOOKUP(MID(A1,4,3),INDIRECT(targetcell & "!A:B,2,FALSE"))

But that returns an error: "You've entered too few arguments for this function."

I'm guessing I have the quotation marks misplaced. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

Blackie
 

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